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October 14, 2019

State of Research 2019

October 14, 2019

State of Research 2019

October 14, 2019

• 1. Highlights of FY19
• 2. Investing in Research
• 3. Innovation
• 4. Looking Ahead

FY19 Sponsored Project Metrics

Description FY19 % Change from previous year Number of Proposals Submitted 1,059 + 3% Dollar Amounts of Proposals Submitted $171 M + 18% Number of Awards 572 < 1% Value of Awards Received $126 M + 2% Total Expenditures $125 M + 5% Total Research Expenditures $88 M + 11%

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FY19 Notable Awards

The College of Ed’s Kent McIntosh is co-director of a $32.6 million award — believed to be the largest grant ever received by the UO — from the U.S. Department of Education to support students with disabilities.

FY19 Notable Awards

A team of faculty led by the Prevention Science Institute’s Leslie Leve was awarded $12.5 million from the National Institutes of Health to study child growth and development.

FY19 Notable Awards

Biologists Karen Guillemin, Judith Eisen, and Brendan Bohannan and biophysicist Raghuveer Parthasarathy received a $7.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the potential health benefits of bacteria.

Earth scientists James Watkins, Leif Karlstrom and Amanda Thomas, biophysicist Mike Harms, and historian Melissa Graboyes received National Science Foundation CAREER Awards, which are among the most sought-after grants awarded by the agency.

FY19 Notable Awards

FY19 Notable Awards

! Michelle Byrne: NIMH — “The role of brain activity and connectivity in the association between immune function and depressive symptoms...” ! Ashley Walker: NIA — Large artery stiffness and cerebrovascular dysfunction: Implications for cognitive impairment and neuropathology ! Laura Jeanty: DOE — Early Career Award to fund research in high energy physics ! Matt Barber: NIGMS — “Adaptive Evolution of Bacteria in the Battle for Iron” ! Daniel Grimes: NIAMS — “The Role of Cilia and Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow in Spine Development and Human and Human Disease” ! Julia Widom: NIGMS — “Novel Tools to Investigate Local and Global RNA Conformations in the Splicesome” ! Diana Libuda: NIH — Recombination pathway and partner choices during meiosis.

Other Junior Faculty Awards

Laura Jeanty (above) received a Department of Energy Early Career Award and Diana Libuda (below) received an NIH MIRA grant in FY19.

FY19 Notable Awards

UO journalism professor Ed Madison and UO education professor Jenefer Husman received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to address the student achievement gap for underrepresented groups in STEM courses. It allows researchers to pursue a creative, interdisciplinary solution to the problem.

FY19 Notable Awards

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Published Research

Top Read UO News Releases on EurekAlert!:

! Sea pickles are settling into the Pacific NW Kelly Sutherland, OIMB ! UO postdoc solves mystery of isolated Atlantic island birds Martin Stervander, IE2 ! UO team makes artificial atoms that work at room temp Benjamín Alemán, Physics

Media Impact

Other Top Performing Stories Based on UO Research & Scholarship:

! "A Signal in Giant Earthquakes That Could Save Lives” — NY Times Diego Melgar, Earth Sciences ! “Imaginary Worlds of Childhood” — Wall Street Journal Marjorie Taylor, Psychology ! “Blind dates for zebrafish reveal ‘social’ cells in brain” — Spectrum Philip Washbourne, Biology

Media Impact

Top Read UO Stories on The Conversation:

! The lies we tell on dating apps to find love Dave Markowitz, SOJC ! Kavanaugh's impact on the Supreme Court and the country may not be as profound as predicted Ofer Raban, Law ! Think you're bad at math? You may suffer from 'math trauma' Jennifer Ruef, COE

Investing in Research

! Research equipment ! Research Development Services ! Seed funding for research ! Electronic Research Administration

Research Equipment

! Plasma Focused Ion Beam Instrument (PFIB) — through unique lease and research collaboration agreements with Thermo Fisher Scientific. ! Spinning Disc Confocal Microscope - Murdock Charitable Trust award – 50% UO match ! X-Ray Microscope – Murdock Charitable Trust – 50% UO match

Research Development

Aims to support and increase externally-funded research activity at the UO through:

! Proposal Development ! Pivot: External Funding Search Tool ! Internal Award Funding Programs ! Resources, Trainings, and Customized Assistance

RDS services are designed to meet the unique needs of faculty across disciplines and career stages.

Kate Petcosky-Kulkarni Mara Fields Catherine Jarmin Miller

Research Development

Early Career Faculty – Group Travel to Washington, DC

A group of junior faculty members meets with Barbara Ransom, a program director at the headquarters of the National Science Foundation in September 2019.

Research Development

Early Career Faculty – Group Travel to Washington, DC

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! Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives (I3) ! OHSU/UO joint research projects ! Data Science ! Social-Environmental Resilience ! VPRI Innovation Fund

Seed Funding Program

Total investments in seed funding projects will exceed $1 million in FY20.

Modules Include:

! IRB ! IACUC ! COI ! Grants (pre & post award) ! Animal Operations

Research Administration Portal (RAP)

Innovation

Description 2018-2019 Change Licensing Revenue $ 10 M + 10% Disclosures/Faculty New Ideas 49 + 14% Science-Based Disclosures 20 + 11% Patent Filings 19 + 12% AAU Licensing Ranking (per $) #5 N/A Total # of Active Startups 26 + 4%

FY19 Innovation Metrics

Innovation Seed Fund Awardees

! Ksana Health Inc: Nick Allen:

mobile assessment of suicide risk

! Perceptivo, LLC: Terry

Takahashi and Avinash Singh: infant hearing assessment

! New Sensor company (TBD): Mike Pluth,

Darren Johnson, Michael Haley: sulfide sensing device

Ksana Health grew out of research by UO’s Nick Allen.

Under Consideration: ! KeyBiome: Karen Guillemin: screening for intestinal microbes and inflammatory response

Oregon Innovation Council Programs

! University Innovation Research Fund

• $10 million matching fund

for federal research awards ! SBIR/STTR Matching Grant ($2.1M) ! SBIR/STTR application support grant ($150k) ! Commercialization Gap Fund ($5 million) ! High Impact Opportunity Projects RFP ($3M)

Knight Campus ! Predicted $30M boost in research Presidential Science Initiatives ! Materials Science ! Microbiome ! Data Science ! Neuroscience ! Environmental Resilience Clusters of Excellence and

• ther faculty hiring

New partnerships ! OHSU ! Industry: Thermo Fisher

Looking Ahead

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• Nov. 21 –

Congress must act to pass the FY20 budget ! Budget Control Caps are no longer a concern ! The clock is ticking – 2020 approaches

Agency

% Change from FY18 to FY19 Change from FY19 to FY20 % Change from FY19 to FY20 Senate

NSF 4 % 7 % 3 % NIH 5 % 5 % 7.6% DoEd 0.3% 6 % 0%???

Looking Ahead

Agency % Change from FY18 to FY19 % Change from FY19 to FY20 House % Change from FY19 to FY20 Senate

NSF 4% 7% 3% NIH 5% 5% 7.6% IES 0.3% 6% 0%

Outlook for Federal Funding

Leslie Leve and Phil Fisher: $10.1 million NIH grant to address the opioid abuse epidemic Douglas Toomey: $3.1 million grant from the USGS for support and improvement of Shake Alert Monte Westerfield/ ZIRC: $8 million from NIH for expansion and modernization of zebrafish facilities

Looking Ahead

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